William M. Abrams

By VARIETY STAFF

The New York Times has tapped William M. Abrams prexy of NYT Television, the Times' television production unit. Abrams will report to Thomas K. Carley, prexy of the New York Times News Services and Michael Oreskes, assistant managing editor and director of electronic news at the New York Times. Christian Gwinn, who had supervised NYT Television on an interim basis as managing director, will report to Abrams. Abrams was most recently prexy of 1France.